HSI Canada condemned the federal government’s rejection of Bill C-308, a proposal to establish a Federal Commission of Inquiry into the development and implementation of a national fishery rebuilding strategy for fish stocks off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Humane Society International/Canada supports the establishment of a Federal Commission of Inquiry into the development and implementation of a national fishery rebuilding strategy for fish stocks off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador.

HSI Canada, joined by Canadian and European Parliamentarians called upon the Canadian government to withdraw its World Trade Organization challenge against the EU ban on seal product trade. The Parliamentarians urged the Canadian government to support Atlantic Canadian sealers and their families by implementing a federal buyout of the commercial sealing industry.

At the Canada European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement negotiations, more than 100 Members of the European Parliament signed an open letter to the Canadian government stating that the European Parliament should not support CETA until Canada withdraws its WTO challenge against the EU seal product trade ban.

A comprehensive study on the economics of seal hunting and seal watching in Namibia commissioned by international animal welfare organizations demonstrated that seals are worth far more alive than dead.

HSI Canada released new video footage from the 2011 commercial seal slaughter, which revealed flagrant violations of Canadian law, and called on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to end Canada’s commercial seal slaughter.

HSI Europe applauded the European Parliament’s threat to block the ratification of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement if the Canadian government did not withdraw its challenge to the EU ban on seal products at the World Trade Organisation.

In recent years, more than 98 percent of the seals killed in Canada’s commercial seal hunt were pups slaughtered before the end of May—and they were therefore less than three months of age when killed.

In February 2011, the Canadian government formally requested a panel to challenge the EU Regulation on trade in seal products at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Canada was seeking to overturn this groundbreaking legislation, which put an end to the trade and marketing of commercial seal products in the EU.

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